Chapter 41 - Connection

He smiled, I could feel the beating of my heart echoing aloud through my chest, I was counting the second he took to reply to my reply and mentally cursing myself for letting my thoughts get the best of me.

"Maybe because we get along very well." He replied, managing to keep a calm surface on the outside. I wondered if deep down he was freaking out like me, and he only had better controlling skills than me.

"We do indeed," I murmured quite disappointed by his reply.

"And I doubt anyone wouldn't find you amazing. I am very glad to have met you. I didn't feel so light-hearted and genuinely happy in a long time." he said making my heart skip a beat and my eyes blink a few times to make sure I heard it right.

I was feeling the same way.

"But you don't do dating and I just broke up with my boyfriend." I summed up the complicated relationship and he smiled as if I read his thoughts.

What silly question did I ask? Wasn't it already complicated?

He stood up then and said, "I want to show you a place."

I stood up too and followed him on his way out after he thanked the waiter and tipped him for his kindness.

"Can I drive your car?" He inquired, as he reached the car.

I nodded and he smiled opening the door for me, "miss Cinderella get ready I am going to show you a place I never showed anyone."

"Is it an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere where you can kill me?" I asked faking a worried facial expression and covering my mouth with a hand pretending to be shocked.

"As soon as he started the car he turned off the radio and I sighed, "one flaw of you is that you don't like music," I said.

He took a few turns with his car and after about twenty minutes we reached a diner surrounded by a few other shops nearby. The pub had a very ancient appearance and on the door grew orchids surrounded by some camellias and roses.

He stretched his hand for me to take it and when I took it I felt his grip tighten and our fingers entwined together.

He pushed the wooden door from where I could hear some music playing and a scent of fish and chips coming from.

When the door budged the place inside was amazing and very unusual. The furniture was wooden and the walls were filled with plants and orchids growing here and there. The menu was engraved on a pile of stones.

"Hi!" One of the men behind the counter waved at Cameron. My gaze traveled through the little diner for the search of music and it stopped when it fell on a stage at the bottom of the room. A young boy was playing piano closing his eyes to focus fully on the melody he was playing, whereas few other people listened to him smiling, there was a basket to the side of the stage.

"They host homeless people who play in the street, they give them a warm place to play in. They even can keep the earning for themself."

Wow, what a kind thoughtful gesture, I was left speechless. Cameron began to walk to the stage and put on the basket a banknote.

I did the same thing and when we reached a table he whispered, "this is the music I like." He commented.

He sat down and gazed at the kid playing piano, he smiled tapping his fingers on the table according to the music's rhythm.

"We should buy him and the other guests their lunches," I suggested, Cameron, nodded to agree to my idea.

"This is why we get along together, Lily. Because we are similar, we get each other, we are determined and at the same time kind. But there's something between us that clicks whenever we are together, I had never experienced this connection before." He said and my gaze fell on my hand, his fingers reached my fingers and were caressing them now.

"But I don't want to ruin what we have." He continued after taking a long deep breath.

A smile grew on my lips and I stretched my fingers so that he could cover my hand with his own.

I tilted my head to the side, "me either." I whispered.

The waiter come to get our orders and Cameron said we would only have some wine to drink as we listened to the song. He also told him to make some dishes for the hosts and that we would pay for them.

The waiter didn't seem surprised at all to hear Cameron and I deduced he was used to offering those people some food.

I just loved to stay with him, he made me feel like a good person and I didn't have to struggle to make the good thing nor to be happy because I genuinely was.

Another person walked on the stage and this time was a probably 16 years old teenager girl, another boy went on the piano and a third one walked on stage to play guitar.

They began to sing one of their songs and I heard Cameron pulling his hair behind mine.

He hugged me from behind and wrapped his hands around my neck as I leaned my head on his chest.

The world in that second stopped and all we could hear was the suave beautiful melody synchronized with the speedy heartbeats of my heart.

In that place I had never been before, with someone I barely knew, I'd never felt more home and safer melting in his sweet company.

I wished time would stop to make this moment last forever.